Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-05-08

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Total value. .t555, $3.50 "a
A tax on this Of eight cents per hundred dol
lars will yield 590o.sS26'.
WHAT rnE REVISION or THE CODE HAS COST.
Mr. waddii, OF Henrico. offered the follow
ing:
Resolped 5g the House Of Delegates, That the
Auditor 81 Public Accounts 10 requested 70
report TO this House at the earliest possible
moment the amount already paid out OF the
public treasury ON account OF the revision OF
the Code. when and 70 whom such payments
were made, and for what made.
ADOPTED.
LRAvE or ABSENCE.
Leave Of absence was granted Mr.. Fentress,
OF Princess Anne. two days; Mr.. Martin, OF
three days; Mr.. Dickerson. Of Pittsylvania,
two days; Mr.. Eastwood, Of King William, one
day.
KENDALL BASE-SoTE oonPASy's CLAM.
The special order, the bill appropriating
$4,000 and interest to pay the Judgment OF the
was. On motion OF Mr.. Barbour, postponed un-
Ill Wednesday al O'Clock.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
Mr.. Hoge. OF Patrick, moved 10 take up out
OF its order House bill 10 remove the political
disabilities OF j. ID. Spangler, Of Patrick ooun-
~. This man, he explained, when mere
schoolboy lin 1870 entered awatermelon-patch
with some OF his comrades and committed
larceny. Upon legal technically and through
prejudice he had been convicted. Mr.. Hoge
was sure the case was meritorious one. and
hoped the bill would pass
MIR. Payne, OF Fauquier, asked in fun II n
schoolboy didn't have a right 20 steal water
melons, what rights did he haye7
"Of course he has" said Mr.. Curlett, OF Lam
caster; "Ive done II myself when | was
how
"wen, Mr.. Speaker" said Mr.. Franklin, OF
AppomattoX, Il move TO include the name of
the gentleman from Lancaster In the bill"
[Iaughter)
Mr.. Saunders made the point that the Cover
ner was authorized 10 act in this case.
Mr.. Hay concuned In the opinion, provided
that there were any disabilities TO remove.
The bill was ordered 20 its engrossment with
out division.
HIRING CoSvICTs.
The special order, being Mr. Carriers bill 70
prevent the Governor and penitentiary officers
irem hiring convicts 70 manufacturers whore
machinery Is used. came up.
MIR. saunders Of Franklin opposed tho Dill.
He said that there was nothing in the platform
Of the Democratic party rightly construed
which required the passage OF any such Dill.
For the first time ia the history OF the peniten-
tiary that institution Is now self-sustaining,
and Il would be wrong to destroy that condi-
ton Of affairs by the adoption OF such legisla.
ton. He was not opposing the employnento OIL
the convicts on public improvements, but the
failure Of the Van Doran bill shows that you
cannot get the counties 10 take them. Wmle
have TO support these convicts lot US 90 IL In
the easiest way.
Mr.. Carter, OF Richmond, moved 10 postpone
the bill until Monday, as many members we're
absent Agreed to.
SENATE BILL PASSED.
To change the name Of the Flattop Coal
Company TO the Old Dominion Mining and
Railroad Company.
HOUSE BILLS PASSED.
For the relief John +. Armstrong.
In relation 10 working the roads in Charlotte
county.
To revive the charter Of the Farmville and
Charlottesville Railroad Company.
NAMED CONFEDERATE SOLDIERS.
The bill to appropriate So, 900 to pay the ap-
plications for Communication OF manned and
disabled soldiers whose applications are on ME
in the ONCE Of the Auditor of Public Accounts
and unpaid came up as special order.
Mr. Cardwell moved 10 so amend as 10 pro-
vide that the Auditor shall not pay any OF the
money appropriated except TO applicants who
have lost q leg or arm or who are as much dis
abled by WOUNDS received In actual service az
IL he had lost leg or arm. and where this
does not fully appear the Auditor shall remand
the papers 10 the court from which II came for
further information.
MIR. Loving, of Amherst, again rose 10 cham
pion the bill. He was opposed 70 the amend
ment-thOusht IL not proper or germaR 10 ths
bill. II the amendment were auOpteu IL Nouiu
simply cause the 1,099 claims which haa been
certified and entered on file in the Auditors
ONCE 10 be remanded back TO the courts from
which they came.
MIR. Figgat. OF Botetourt, moved 70 pass the
bill by for the present
MIR Wise Republcan). Of James City, IA
vored the bill. and so expressed himself lie
trusted the House would not pass 10y.
The motion 10 pass by was lost.
soma little dlibustering followed this, and
the House AT 2:1O. on motion of Mr.. lawson, Of
Campbell, adjourned till Monday at noon.